Car hits side of train

Car hits side of train
LIBERTY -- Two young Pennsylvania men escaped serious injury Tuesday when the car they were in hit the side of a train.
The driver, Nicholas Keck, 19, of Bend Road, Mercer, and his passenger, James Eicher, 18, of McConnell Road, New Wilmington, were released after treatment at St. Elizabeth Health Center.
Police said Keck was driving a car west on Logan Gate Road shortly before 11 a.m. when the car struck a northbound Norfolk & amp; Southern Railroad train.
Police reported that Keck said he didn't see the train until it was too late, tried to brake and slid into the train.
Police said there are no gates at the crossing, but the signal lights were working. Keck was cited for failure to yield.
Break-in at church
BROOKFIELD -- Police are investigating a break-in Monday at Brookfield United Methodist Church on Grove Street. A small amount of cash was taken, Police Chief Daniel Faustino said.
The burglary comes after three recent break-ins of churches in Hubbard Township and one in Hartford Township.
Faustino said the break-ins aren't netting much money.
Carbon monoxide poisoning
WARREN -- A 12-year-old boy, his mother and uncle were flown Tuesday evening to Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh after being poisoned by carbon monoxide in a home at 1190 Woodland St. N.E. It appears the furnace was turned off while heating ducts were being repaired, and the family was relying on space heaters, which produced the carbon monoxide, said Police Lt. Cathy Giovannone. Rosetta Wright, her son Jamal, and his uncle John Jackson, were all in the home at the time. The boy's father, James Wright II, came home, found the victims, shut off the space heaters and drove the victims to Trumbull Memorial Hospital before they were flown to Pittsburgh, Giovannone said. Officials at Allegheny Hospital could not be reached this morning to determine the patients' conditions.
Trustees OK proposal
HUBBARD -- Township trustees approved a motion in support of a special airport zoning district that would limit building heights in Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport flight paths.
The airport zoning district was proposed by Operation Soar, a committee dedicated to helping insulate the Youngstown Joint Air Force Reserve Station from a planned round of military base closures next year. The air station uses the airport's runways.
The proposal would limit dense settlements and tall buildings in swaths of Vienna, Hubbard, Bazetta, Howland, Brookfield and Fowler.
However, the proposed regulations -- which mirror FAA regulations -- would only impact buildings over 150 feet tall. There are few, if any, buildings that tall in Trumbull County, and none in the airport vicinity.
Man gets 9 years in prison
WARREN -- A 19-year-old Haymaker Avenue Northeast man, who pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary and kidnapping charges, has been sentenced to nine years in prison.
Allen L. Elkins IV was sentenced during a brief hearing Tuesday in the courtroom of Judge Andrew Logan. He pleaded guilty in April to charges of aggravated burglary, kidnapping, burglary and failure to comply to the order or signal of a police officer.
In exchange for his guilty plea, prosecutors dismissed five counts of rape.
Police said that March 23, Elkins and Joel Davis burglarized two homes. A woman at a home on Parkman Road told police one of the men had raped her.
Judge John Stuard sentenced Davis, 20, to 18 years in prison last month after Davis pleaded guilty to charges of burglary, aggravated burglary, kidnapping and rape.